Total War: Rome II went from being one of 2013's most promising games to one of its most disappointing. Indeed, it took months of patches and updates to even get it to a presentable state. Not that performance and AI were the last of the game's troubles. »2/19/14 11:00pm 2/19/14 11:00pm

Riley is the exception. For too long, dogs - who are meant to be our best friends - have been portrayed as annoying video game villains, foes able to dodge bullets and who take a crummy QTE or two to see off. In Total War: Rome II, that's not the case. »11/07/13 1:00am 11/07/13 1:00am

Fiendish stares from hell, death animations that look like dance moves, subterrestrial ships, a Superman army, weird low-res textures... Total War: Rome II has some of the funniest glitches of any strategy game. And since a patch comes out today, all these things will probably be lost in time, like Spartan ships in… »9/06/13 9:00pm 9/06/13 9:00pm

Creative Assembly's latest PC strategy game, Total War: Rome II, is out today. Make sure to watch your back while slaughtering armies and conquering all those cities, lest you end up lying in a pool of your own blood. Don't follow the trailer's example, folks. »9/03/13 7:20am 9/03/13 7:20am

While no mere video game could ever hope to accurately emulate one of the greatest military commanders of all-time, Total War: Rome II has the power, scale and versatility to give Hannibal a good run. »8/01/13 10:00am 8/01/13 10:00am

Rather than let the unwashed masses make "Let's Play" videos of the upcoming Total War: Rome II, Creative Assembly and Sega have cut out the middle man and made one themselves. »7/12/13 3:00am 7/12/13 3:00am

The people in charge of hyping the new PC game Total War: Rome II keep exploiting our weakness for absurdly large, detailed screenshots—screenshots that could get their game mistaken for the most violent Where's Waldo ever. »6/28/13 12:00pm 6/28/13 12:00pm

Here's how a screenshot normally gets from a publisher to a website like this. They're either hosted on a press site or sent via email. Sometimes, if a company is crazy/lazy, they'll only send the versions that print magazines can use, meaning we've got a little resizing to do to get it to a size that won't destroy… »4/11/13 12:00am 4/11/13 12:00am

It's not actual gameplay. There's no HUD, no mouse cursor. But at least give Creative Assembly credit for releasing a cutscene for Total War: Rome II that's made up entirely of in-game assets, something they did to good effect in Shogun 2. »3/01/13 3:00am 3/01/13 3:00am

By the gods, this first glimpse of the the battles between the ancient empire of Rome and Carthage looks amazing. The video above is purportedly cut from in-game footage and this clip—coupled with the screens we saw during the summer—sure make it seem like Creative Assembly's next strategy opus is going to be a… »9/26/12 10:40am 9/26/12 10:40am

It's been eons—in gaming time, at least—since The Creative Assembly's Roman variant of the Total War strategy games let millions of players become Caesars. A sequel's finally been confirmed today and Total War: Rome II will be sporting a new graphics engine to make the global domination shinier than ever. You'll get… »7/02/12 10:00am 7/02/12 10:00am